dash/doc/release-notes-5965.md

Wallet Tool Enhancements

This release introduces several improvements and new features to the dash-wallet tool, making it more versatile and user-friendly for managing Dash wallets.

Wallet Version Bump

Wallets created with the dash-wallet tool will now utilize the FEATURE_LATEST version of wallet which is the HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) wallets with HD chain inside.

New functionality

• new command line argument -descriptors to enable experimental support of Descriptor wallets. It lets users to create descriptor wallets directly from the command line. This change aims to align the command-line interface with the createwallet RPC, promoting the use of descriptor wallets which offer a more robust and flexible way to manage wallet addresses and keys.
• new command line argument -usehd which let to create non-Hierarchical Deterministic (non-HD) wallets with the wallettool for compatibility reasons since default version is bumped to HD version
• new commands dump and createfromdump have been added, enhancing the wallet's storage migration capabilities. The dump command allows for exporting every key-value pair from the wallet as comma-separated hex values, facilitating a storage agnostic dump. Meanwhile, the createfromdump command enables the creation of a new wallet file using the records specified in a dump file. These commands are similar to BDB's db_dump and db_load tools and are crucial for manual wallet file construction for testing or migration purposes.